Immersion

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Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the ''good'' body in contemporary neoli...

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Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the ''good'' body in contemporary neoli...

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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9781526100474
  • Publication Date: 1 Jul 2016
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM